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The final site for Dworshak Dam was chosen at a point on the North Fork of the Clearwater 1.9 miles (3.1 km) above its confluence with the larger Clearwater River. The project was authorized on October 23, 1962, as Bruces Eddy Dam; [ 9 ] the name was later changed to honor Senator Henry Dworshak (1894–1962), who was instrumental in gaining ...
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The Dworshak Reservoir is the only major lake on the Clearwater system, created from the Dworshak Dam, completed in the early 1970s. Dworshak Dam is on the North Fork of the Clearwater River and is just northwest of Orofino. There is no fish ladder; the dam blocks salmon and steelhead passage.
The Dent Bridge is a suspension bridge in the northwest United States, located in north central Idaho in Clearwater County, north of Orofino. [2] [3] It is 17 miles (27 km) up the North Fork of the Clearwater River, now Dworshak Reservoir. [4]
The North Fork Clearwater River is a major tributary of the Clearwater River in the U.S. state of Idaho. [1] From its headwaters in the Bitterroot Mountains of eastern Idaho, it flows 135 miles (217 km) [2] westward and is dammed by the Dworshak Dam just above its mouth in north-central Idaho.
Ahsahka is a small unincorporated community located in Clearwater County, Idaho, United States, [1] and is close to the Dworshak Dam. [2] Ahsahka is located at 46°30′08″N 116°19′27″W / 46.50222°N 116.32417°W / 46.50222; -116.
Dworshak Dam, a hydroelectric, concrete gravity dam in Clearwater County, Idaho, United States; Dvorak keyboard layout, an alternative to the QWERTY keyboard layout, named after August Dvorak; Dworshak National Fish Hatchery, a "mitigation" hatchery; Dvorak technique, a subjective method of deriving cyclone intensity from satellite imagery
A fact from Dworshak Dam appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 27 June 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that the 1973 completion of the Dworshak Dam (pictured), one of the tallest in the United States, wiped out one of the world's preeminent runs of steelhead trout?